1977 The Wasp in a Wig retailer Lewis Carroll First Ed Dust Wrapper

This episode follows Alice as she encounters a working-class wasp, who has lost his hair and so wears a yellow wig. It was advised to Carroll by John Tenniel, his illustrator, that a wasp wearing a wig is 'altogether beyond the appliances of art', and so it was decided to cut the episode. It was thought to have been lost, until proofs of the passage turned up at Sotheby's.Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), writing under his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an author primarily of children's fiction known for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and his poems 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Hunting of the Snark', poems defined as being literary nonsense.With a preface, introduction and annotations by Martin Gardner.With a frontispiece illustration of Alice, and facsimiles of Carroll's text.Complete with the clipped dust wrapper. Condition Report: In the publsiher's original full cloth binding with retailer a clipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Overall: Fine